Jenn Lindsay is a Brooklyn-based folksinger who was raised by wolves on the moors of England. Her live shows consequently have a raw emotional quality that speaks to estranged musicians everywhere; her song I am Not Going Home Yet demonstrates the lupine stubbornness that she has developed whilst playing guitar in the subways of New York and eating saltine crackers for dinner.
Okay, really truly, she's from San Diego, but she's still a lot of fun. And her shows, if not wolfish, are certainly energetic, enjoyable and intelligent. Lach from the NYC East Village's Sidewalk Café Anti-folk Scene has recently named her "an exciting newcomerfun, poignant, and charming." In a few months Jenn has successfully developed a fan base in NYC, which is generally as easy as nailing Jell-O to a tree.
While not nailing Jell-O to trees or pushing mounds of wet pasta up hills, JENN LINDSAY is on the steering committee of the Puss N Boots Festival 2002 (www.pussfest.com), a music fest benefiting a domestic violence organization. Jenn started gigging while at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, playing in skeezy British pubs where patrons ate fish sandwiches and stared dully at Jenn while she learned how to strum chords and chew gum at the same time. She moved on to San Francisco and successfully distracted folks from their beers as she quickly made a name for herself as an influential and integral artist to the East Bay political scene. She regularly played her original guitar tunes at feminist gatherings, Take Back the Night rallies, political art festivals, and regularly showcased at coffeehouses and nightspots in Palo Alto, California, including the Edge, the Stanford University Coffee House, and the Birdcage. JENN LINDSAY was employed as a musical activist by the Stanford Women's Community Center, the Stanford Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Community Resources Center, and by the Stanford Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
One day girlfriend grabbed her guitar and her head full o dreams and transplanted herself to New York City, where she plays prominently at The Sidewalk Café (and in the Winter Anti-Folk Fest 2002), The C-Note, The Rising, The Raven, P.E.R.I.O.D. (a Brooklyn rocker-grrrl collective), the Spit East Performance Collective, Bluestockings Women's Bookstore Collective, The Orange Bear and the W.E.R.I.S.E. weekly new artist spot at the East Village's Meow Mix Tavern.
JENN LINDSAY writes super-fun super-duper honest lyrics and she tries hard, as a folksinger, to be a spokesperson for political issues, while also striving to write music that can be enjoyed in an apolitical context. Because she doesn't know what she's doing, really, in any serious battle-worthy technical sense, her music retains the inventive and compelling stamp of complete, joyful naïveté. Coupled in turn with a dusty natty wacky straight up folky sense of what she needs to say to make her way, JENN LINDSAY's a hot potato, and happily so.
1. Red Shirt
2. Fangs and Fur
3. Olly Olly Oxen Free
4. Athena
5. I Am Not Going Home Yet
6. Three Sparrows Four
7. I Call Myself a Flower
8. Salvation Army
9. I Stayed Home Today
10. Song That Mama Sings
11. Tower of Toys
12. Retrospective: in Out in Out
